Ground loops can degrade circuit performance and ruin your day. Follow these tips to prevent them from occurring in circuits ...

These magical creatures crop up out of nowhere and fry your electronics or annoy your ear holes. Understanding them will doubtless save you money and hassle. The ground loop in a nutshell is what ...

To maximize the quality of your audio when you’re producing a live event, it’s important to assess your signal carefully all the way through the chain, as I discussed in my May/June 2015 article How ...

When designing or installing the cables for a video transmission system, one assumption that engineers commonly make is that the local earth grounds of both ends of the cable are the same. When ...

Of all the annoyances that can afflict any audio/video home theater or even a simple stereo installation, the notorious “ground loop” may well be the most difficult and persistent one to track down ...

Unwanted disturbances in the data lines between two electronic devices communicating with each other due to unbalanced reference voltages in the ground loop. Data signals can be altered, and ...